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Antoinette, living in Paroisse De St-Laurent, Paris, contracted to marry Jacques Bernier of Quebec.

7/1656, Antoinette arrived in Quebec, New France to be married.

7/23/1656 in Quebec, Jacques married Antoinette. The Governor, Jean de Lauzon, attended the wedding. Both sets of parents are named in the wedding document. It is known that Antoinette married Jacques within 15 days of arriving in New France. “Dauteuil” also attended.

Jacques and Antoinette went to live on the south coast of the western tip of Ile de Orleans.

2/9/1670, Jacques ceded back the land acquired from Clement Ruel in 1664.

2/5/1673, Jacques received a concession in future Cap-St-Ignace of 9 arpents frontal by 40 deep from seigneuresses Eleonore de Grandmaison and her daughter Genevieve de Chavigny.

3/6/1673, Jacques sold the land acquired from the Juchereau brothers.

4/28/1674, Jacques, resident of Ile de Orleans, sold land to Gabriel Gosselin.

Antoinette & Jacques moved as the 1st settlers to Cap-St-Ignace. [Wrote Father Sirois: “In the early days, the missionaries said mass and performed the duties of curate in the house of Jacques Bernier … This house was located on the edge of the river.”]

10/24/1674, Jacques, resident of Cap-St-Ignace, sold land to Guillaume Lelievre.

~1675, Jacques bought a boat from Paul de Rainville to transport his wood to Quebec.